Heat

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As some of you know heat is my thing.

I have tried many combos to get it down and for me I have gotten my rtx 2070 Max Q to go no higher than 42C.

What did it for me was:

1. I used gforce experience to get the studio driver, go to whisper mode and optimized my battery.

2. I used nvidea control panel and went to 3D settings. From there I added GCIV. Then I set it to use my 2070 and changed the fps (bottom of list) from 40 to 30. I also did this for the Epic Launcher to cover all posibilities.

I have also gone into GCIV setting/graphics and nerfed it all and checked the low res picture box.

For those with dif cards and programs I hope this gives you some ideas

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

I played with it some more and made it go through turns faster then usually would and could no tget it above 43C

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Had to redo it and found that command Center/3D/Program setting I now have the ability to adjust the power management.

I put it down to consistent and a few more degrees were cut.

All this cuttng is not affecting my turn times; only the program load time.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Got the same issue. Reducing fps is my only solution.

I observed that gpu consumption depends a lot of where we are in the game.

Low: ideology, diplomacy, core world
Medium: galaxy (completly zoomed out)
High: govern civilization, leaders, executive orders, galaxy (completely zoomed in, zoomed out to see one sector)

So alpha 0.40.. maybe you can track it down. From a players view of point I do not see any reason why "govern civilization, leaders, executive orders and galaxy completely zoomed in" should consume so much gpu power.

I checked other 4X games if it is my gpu but it is not. One game that was almost all fine had the same issue at its diplomacy screen.

Reply #4 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

If you have a nVida card you can use Experience  and click on the battery boost and go to optimze for battery.

In the Control Panel I turned off all, maxed power and Performance on 2 items, and down to 20 fps for 2.

Also zooming out when ever can helps.

My power was destroyed when I decided to see what Alienware Comand Center was like now. Causing me to redo and fine tune it some more.

I also disabled my Intel from loading in Task manager startup. My settings do not change.

The result is both my gpus do some of the work causing heat to be shared on both chips insead of all on one.

 

On boot  after a night of rest I am 80F at first. After ideling for a while and surfing the web I am apx.  91-93F.

The nVidea GPU during a game is 39 to 43C usually except when the screen to choose between 3 things showes. Then I hold at 50C. It is like it wants something that is not there yet.

Oh; also I played with the Advanced Power settings/Change Plan Settings in Windows.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

@ForesterSOF I have a 2080T in a Alienware Threadripper.

I do not run diag programs while playing.

I do however notice the fans kicking in occasionally for maybe ten seconds.

However my computer room is not optimal as my house has evaporative cooling so room is always 70f.

This fan activation does not happen at any other time except when playing the Alpha.

Posted mostly to confirm that even with " High End Gamming Rigs " the temps get up a bit.

I'm really computer challenged when it comes to anything I need to do I can't click my mouse to activate:grin: .

 

 

 

 

 

Reply #6 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

It souns like your fans kicked into high when a temp was rerached.

When I had awcc installed and running it had profiles for cpu, gpu, and fan.

I believe my fan (thermal) was at Preformance. If all else fails you can install hwinfo and auto start it with the system and set the fans to 100%

I run diagnostics while in alpha. or tweeking setings. After that is just feel how hot the air comming out the vents (if at all) is.